It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake Quotes

“Pleasure isn’t a person. It’s personal. And I need to work out what it looks like to me.”
― Claire Christian, It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake

“Everything I do is dictated by my relationship with other people, and I mostly like that about myself. I’m a good daughter, friend, neighbour, teacher, even colleague – I mean, I always take time to re-fill the water cooler when its nearing empty. But there’s one relationship I’ve neglected my whole life: my relationship with myself”
― Claire Christian, It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake

“I was in a lesbian relationship for nine years, so you don’t need to mansplain strap-ons to me.”
― Claire Christian, It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake

“I wish there was a word to describe this thing that happens when you meet someone new. The way they look at you through a new lens and notice things about you that you didn’t even realise about yourself. The delivery of this information is like these little explosions of recognition. Feeling seen and surprised all at once”
― Claire Christian, It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake

“You can do whatever the fuck you want to do, my darling”
― Claire Christian, It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake

“I can be happy anywhere, I realize, because I now know I am the common denominator in my own happiness. Not things or clothes or Vikings, but me.”
― Claire Christian, It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake

“There’s one relationship I’ve neglected my whole life. My relationship with myself. I would never tolerate the things I say to myself if someone else was saying them. I disregard my feelings. I don’t value my desires. I don’t nurture myself. I’m mean. Pleasure is personal and I need to work out what it looks like to me.

Giving zero fucks. Having fun. The kind of person who wears things they want to wear, not because it suits their shape. I have so many stupid rules about clothes. I think you should be the kind of person who says what they think. Who feels scared but pushes through and does it anyway. The kind of person who trusts that voice. That intuition voice. That gut voice. The voice that’s telling you that all of this is right. Does cool shit with her hair without worrying about it. Has fantasies that infiltrate her actual life. Just eats what her body craves. Doesn’t start sentences with the word sorry. Tells people to get fucked and who doesn’t spend hours and hours feeling nauseated or anxious or running things over and over again in a guilt fueled spiral. Tries things even when she knows she might be bad at them. Values her own opinion and instinct. Trusts herself. Allows good things to happen and allows herself to make mistakes. Doing what feels good. A quest for more. A pleasure quest.”
― Claire Christian, It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake

“I'm just going with the flow and I'm not forcing anything."

"Yeah, but you know what else goes with the flow? Sewage, dead fish, lost balloons.”
― Claire Christian, It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake

“I want you because I want you. Because at a base level my chemicals are infatuated by your chemicals and every time I see you I want to do outrageously sexy things to you.”
― Claire Christian, It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake

“His mouth is closed in a sweet, pained, loved-filled smile, and I swoon. Like I’m a blob of paint and a brush has come in and swirled me in a perfect circle”
― Claire Christian, It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake

“I think it’s not actually about whether you can pull off a ruffled sleeve, but rather about who you’re allowing to pull this ruffled sleeve off your body?”
― Claire Christian, It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake